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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 159139" data-attributes="member: 9240">I don't think there's a steep learning curve, but a lot depends where you're coming from.&nbsp; This about it as a basic digital darkroom (hence the name - you keep the light on).&nbsp; The Library module is where you store your negatives/contact sheets and notes about the shoot.&nbsp; The Develop module is where you &quot;print&quot; the photos from the negatives, with the updated print getting stored as a thumbnail in the Library.&nbsp; The rest are nice to haves but you could live with just those two.&nbsp; As Dave states, there's no &quot;saving&quot; involved and no additional files that you have to create until you &quot;print&quot; a JPG for use somewhere using the Export function or something else. Scott Kelby's book helped me understand the power of LR3 and I've been a user since (just downloaded 5).&nbsp; Between that and the vids that area available on the net you should be able to grab hold of it quickly.&nbsp; It's not necessarily intuitive if you haven't used Adobe products before, but with some guidance you should be able to pick it up quickly.For me, it's now become more of a workflow manager with most of my edits being done in CS6 (which I then save as a PSD file and depending on the photo I will stack it with the original RAW file in the Library section in case I ever want to go back and revisit the edit.&nbsp; You can do the same thing with PSE11, if you find that what you can do in LR isn't sufficient (there are a LOT of cool tools in there if you explore long enough - especially when you utilize your eye dropper selective editing tools with the various sliders).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 159139, member: 9240"] I don't think there's a steep learning curve, but a lot depends where you're coming from. This about it as a basic digital darkroom (hence the name - you keep the light on). The Library module is where you store your negatives/contact sheets and notes about the shoot. The Develop module is where you "print" the photos from the negatives, with the updated print getting stored as a thumbnail in the Library. The rest are nice to haves but you could live with just those two. As Dave states, there's no "saving" involved and no additional files that you have to create until you "print" a JPG for use somewhere using the Export function or something else. Scott Kelby's book helped me understand the power of LR3 and I've been a user since (just downloaded 5). Between that and the vids that area available on the net you should be able to grab hold of it quickly. It's not necessarily intuitive if you haven't used Adobe products before, but with some guidance you should be able to pick it up quickly. For me, it's now become more of a workflow manager with most of my edits being done in CS6 (which I then save as a PSD file and depending on the photo I will stack it with the original RAW file in the Library section in case I ever want to go back and revisit the edit. You can do the same thing with PSE11, if you find that what you can do in LR isn't sufficient (there are a LOT of cool tools in there if you explore long enough - especially when you utilize your eye dropper selective editing tools with the various sliders). [/QUOTE]

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